"This is the evidence that we are putting in front of our citizens, and the citizens get to decide one way or another," said County Recorder Adrian Fontes. "That's what jury service is like, that's what these citizens are doing."

Fontes says tabulation machines will flag ballots which contain some unclear markings, like when a voter left a stray line in a race or used a marker that bled through to the back.

Those ballots then go to a specific board, made up of at least two registered voters of different political parties, which try to decide what the voter intended.